Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockaclara, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaclara
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gorteenflugh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gorteenflugh Fort (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.90801, -8.95656
- SMR number
- CL026-028----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a slight hollow on an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. Hachured as a subrectangular enclosure (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 50m E-W) with a wide perimeter (Wth c. 10m) on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a rectangular field on the 1920 ed. A rectangular area (dims. 48m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by drystone walls. This field may be mis-represented on the 1842 ed. of the map.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.